Psalms 22:4
In you our ancestors trusted, they trusted and you delivered them.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
In Context
3You are the Holy One, throned on the praises of Israel.
5They cried to you, and found safety, in you did they trust and were not put to shame.
Cross References
Genesis 15:6Abram believed in the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness,
Genesis 32:28Then he said, “Your name will be no longer Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with mortals and have won.”
Romans 4:18With no ground for hope, Abraham, sustained by hope, put faith in God; in order that, in fulfillment of the words – ‘So many will your descendants be,’ he might become ‘the father of many nations.’
Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:2-11
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men,… Read the whole commentary →